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PROCESS OF MAKING SURGIGAL BANDAGES. No. 378,178. Patented Feb.21,1888.

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PROCESS OF MAKING SURGICAL BANDAGES. 180878.178. Patented Feb. 21, 1888.

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UNITED STATES Parent WILLIAM BRADBURY ROBINSON AND ELIZABETH ROBINSON,OF BRAMPTON, COUNTY OF DERBY, ENGLAND; SAID ELIZABETH ROBINSON ASSIGNORTO SAID TVILLTAM B l ADBUR-Y ROBINSON.

PROCESS OF MAKlNG SURGECAL BANDAGES SPECIFICATION forming part ofLetters Patent No. 378,178, dated February 21, 1888,

Application filed August 8, 1887.

Serial No. 24 6.423,

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Be it known that we, WILLIAM BRADBURY f ROBINSON, lin t,cotton, wool,and bandage mani nlactn rcr, and ELIZABETH ROBINSON, spinster,

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England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in theProcess for the Mannfacture of Pads and Bandages for Medical and otherPurposes, of which the following is a less band 6, and are carried by itup to the specification.

In an application lodged by one of usviz., T

the said XVilliam Bradbury Robinson-on the 7th day of August, 1886,Serial No. 210,876,

was described a medical bandage consisting of a tubular fabric filledfrom end to end with cotton, wool, or other material.

The present application relates to a process for making an article whichdiffers only from that described in the said former application in thatthe cottomwool, or other material does not necessarily extendcontinuously from end to end of the tubular fabric, but may be dividedinto a number of separate pads.

Figure 1 is a side elevation, and Fig. 2 is a plan,oft.lie article to bemanulactured. Fig. 3 is a general view of the apparatus forproduc-- ingthe article; and Fig. & is a vertical longitudinal section 01" the tubea, Fig. 3.

a is a tube, Fig. -t. This tube is of any suitable length-say from fourto ten feet; It is preferably of an oval section. The tubular fabric 0,(many yards in length,) from which the series of bandagesdligs. l and2,are to be made,

is collected on the outside of this tube, as shown 1 in Fig. 4, as wovenand without being previously turned inside out. One end of the ric to atape which has previously been passed through the tube. The end of thetubular fabric thus drawn through the tube is carried over dd are a pairof rollers carrying an endless band, a. The three rollers c, d, and dare all driven at the same surface speed.

Tufts or pads of medicated cotton, wool, or other material, ff, areplaced,by hand or 0th erwisc,at regularintervals apart upon the endmouthof the tube a. As soon as they arrive at the mouth of the tube they aretaken hold of by the tubular fabric and are drawn by it; through thetube, thus forming the continuous length of bandages shown in Figs. 1and 2,and can be afterward cut in the center of the unfilled tubularfabric, or wherever desired, to make separate pads.

The process and apparatus, as above described, nlthongh especiallyadapted for the manufacture of the article shown in Figs. 1 and 2, isalso applicable to the manufacture of bandages with a continuous filliug, as described in said former application.

YVhat we claim is The process ofmanufacturing pads and band ages,consisting in collecting alcngth of tubn lar fabric on the ontsideof atube and drawing it oil through the inside of the tube whilecott0n,wool, or other material is introduced into it eitherintermittently or continuously, substantially described.

ll'llllllltivl lilLtDBlJRY ROBDJSQX. llLlZABll'lll ROBINSON.

W'itnesses:

ll-rcrmno Tnonns GR-ATTON, No. 7 Kmfcsmiih Gate, Chesterfield, England,So-

Ziciior.

EDWARD Scnomnm), Compton Street, Chesterfield, England, Law Clerk.

